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Weekly German satirical magazine (1885–1944)

Lustige Blätter
Cover page of issue 4 dated 1900
CategoriesSatirical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherVerlag Dr. Eysler & Co GmbH
FounderAlexander Moszkowski
Founded1885
Final issue1944
CountryGermany
Based inBerlin
LanguageGerman
OCLC10656989

Lustige Blätter (German: Comic Pages) was a satirical magazine published between 1885 and 1944 in Berlin. Its subtitle was schönstes buntes Witzblatt Deutschlands (German: Germany's most beautiful colorful humor paper).

History and profile

Lustige Blätter was established by the writer Alexander Moszkowski in Berlin in 1885. From 1887 to 1891 it was a supplement to Berliner Börsen-Courier. Moszkowski and Paul von Schönthan were the founding editors-in-chief of the magazine. The former held the post until his retirement in 1927. The magazine was published on a weekly basis and featured satirical articles and cartoons about social and cultural events. Heinrich Zille, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Trier and Julius Klinger were among its leading caricaturists and illustrators. Other major contributors of the magazine were Bruno Balz, Betty Korytowska, Max Brinkmann, Rudolf Presber, Gustav Hochstetter, and Georg Mühlen-Schulte. Finnish cartoonist Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa also published his caricatures in the magazine which were mostly about the Russian Empire and Nicholas II. He was in exile in Paris during this period so that his caricatures were published anonymously.

The magazine held a liberal political stance. However, during the Nazi period it contained anti-semitic material. Lustige Blätter folded in 1944.

References

  1. ^ "Lustige Blätter: schönstes buntes Witzblatt Deutschlands – digital" (in German). University of Heidelberg. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  2. Betto van Waarden (2022). "The Many Faces of Performative Politics: Satires of Statesman Bernhard von Bülow in Wilhelmine Germany". Journalism History. 48 (1): 64. doi:10.1080/00947679.2022.2027158. S2CID 246897253.
  3. Mark Bryant (December 2016). "A little magazine with huge impact". British Journalism Review. 27 (4): 63. doi:10.1177/0956474816681751. S2CID 151351840.
  4. ^ Pekka Pitkälä (2020). "Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa, August Strindberg and a dispute concerning the common origins of the languages of mankind 1911–1912". Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis. 29: 58. doi:10.30674/scripta.89215.
  5. Claudia Bruns (2011). "Masculinity, Sexuality and the German Nation: The Eulenburg Scandals and Kaiser Wilhelm II in Political Cartoons". In Udo J. Hebel; Christoph Wagner (eds.). Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies: Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 119. ISBN 978-3-11-023785-6.
  6. "Lustige Blätter, Nr. 27/58. year July 2, 1943". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 7 September 2022.

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